Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-29 Thread Serge
2012/5/30 Thomas Goirand wrote: >> You mean you know some real applications becoming noticeably faster >> having /tmp on tmpfs? > > No, I mean that writing "nobody can notice that on real applications" > is a bit too extreme, that's all I'm saying. Right, sorry. Of course, I may be wrong, there c

Re: Bug#675106: ITP: pgbulkload -- A high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL

2012-05-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Alexander Kuznetsov writes: […] (Some wording fixes and suggestions.) > Description : A high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL > pg_bulkload is designed to load huge amount of data to a database. > You can choose whether database constraints are checked and how many

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Thorsten Glaser writes: > Charles Plessy dixit: >> upstream source moved to GitHub, and we would like to try to >> maintain the Debian package there as well. > This is not a good idea: http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html That's why I tend to advocate for the use of

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2012 03:51 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I strongly object to this as a general principle: Debian freezing is no > excuse for hijacking! > That's not the reason, the reason is that we've been working on tools to improve PHP package quality, and recently noticed that php-codesniffer wa

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2012 10:07 AM, Serge wrote: > 2012/5/28 Thomas Goirand wrote: > > >>> The truth is that tmpfs IS FASTER in some cases. The problem is that >>> *nobody* can notice that on *real* applications. >>> >> Serge, I'm on your side of the discussion, but the above is simply >> not truth.

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-29 Thread Serge
2012/5/27 Ben Hutchings wrote: >> then /tmp using tmpfs *will* lead to issues that many wont understand. > As will /tmp on a small root partition. > As will a small dedicated /tmp partition. True. But debian does not have small root partition *by default*. And it does not install with a small de

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-29 Thread Serge
2012/5/28 Thomas Goirand wrote: >> The truth is that tmpfs IS FASTER in some cases. The problem is that >> *nobody* can notice that on *real* applications. > > Serge, I'm on your side of the discussion, but the above is simply > not truth. You mean you know some real applications becoming noticea

Bug#675131: ITP: vpnc-scripts -- Network configuration scripts for vpnc and openconnect

2012-05-29 Thread Mike Miller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Miller * Package name: vpnc-scripts Version : 20120526 Upstream Author : David Woodhouse * URL : http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/vpnc-script.html * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Shell Description :

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-29 Thread Toni Mueller
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 08:26:52AM -0400, Weldon Goree wrote: > at some point). Much better developers than me seem to have formed > this opinion too (cf browsers' behavior while it waits for you to tell > it what to do with an unknown content-type: it's a disk-based pipe to > whatever program you

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:54:32PM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : > > Having that said, 5 days of (private) conversation is perhaps really a > bit too short to hijack a package. I'd expect that process to include > several weeks of waiting time for an answer at least. I concur. It is socially and te

Bug#675106: ITP: pgbulkload -- A high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL

2012-05-29 Thread Alexander Kuznetsov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Kuznetsov * Package name: pgbulkload Version : 3.1.1 Upstream Author : Takahiro Itagakiitagaki.takahiro @nospam@ gmail.com Masao Fujii masao.fujii @nospam@ gmail.com

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 29.05.2012 21:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Seems you had several years of solving this issue, yet you waited until Similarly, the maintainer had 4 years to care about his package. > Did you consider an NMU? That might be an alternative, but looking at the current bug list people will a

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-30 at 02:49am, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Jack Bates is supposed to maintain php-codesniffer, [snip] > this package last upload was from 2008-10-05, [snip] > we'd like to see the latest version in Wheezy [snip] > We sent a mail 5 days ago to Jack Bates, and he didn't reply. It's > currently

Re: bitbucket is lock in? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-05-29 Thread Carsten Hey
* Martin Bagge / brother [2012-05-29 21:01 +0200]: > On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote: > > >I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike, > >say Bitkeeper, ... > > Can you elaborate on the bitbucket case there? How am I not allowed > to do a git clone from my git repo on b

Re: bitbucket is lock in? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-05-29 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-05-29 21:01:24 +0200 (+0200), Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote: > > >I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike, > >say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere, entirely with > >open source software, and are in no way

Re: bitbucket is lock in? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Hanke
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:01:24PM +0200, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote: > > >I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike, > >say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere, entirely with > >open source software, and are in no

bitbucket is lock in? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-05-29 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote: I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike, say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere, entirely with open source software, and are in no way locked down to using github. Can you elaborate on the bitbucket case there?

Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Jack Bates is supposed to maintain php-codesniffer, available from: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer Unfortunately, the PTS for this package shows that this package last upload was from 2008-10-05, few months after version 1.1.0 was released upstream (on the 2008-07-14). Upstream h

Bug#675078: ITP: overlay-scrollbar -- scrollbar overlay

2012-05-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf * Package name: overlay-scrollbar Version : 0.2.16 Upstream Author : Andrea Cimitan * URL : http://launchpad.net/ayatana-scrollbar * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : scrollb

Bug#675066: ITP: fonts-moe-standard-song -- Chinese TrueType font, standard Song (non-free)

2012-05-29 Thread Kan-Ru Chen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kan-Ru Chen" * Package name: fonts-moe-standard-song Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : mandr _at_ mail.moe.gov.tw * URL : http://www.edu.tw/mandr/content.aspx?site_content_sn=3786 * License : CC-BY-ND 3.0 Programming La

Bug#675065: ITP: fonts-moe-standard-kai -- Chinese TrueType font, standard Kaiti (non-free)

2012-05-29 Thread Kan-Ru Chen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kan-Ru Chen" * Package name: fonts-moe-standard-kai Version : 3.00 Upstream Author : mandr _at_ mail.moe.gov.tw * URL : http://www.edu.tw/mandr/content.aspx?site_content_sn=31322 * License : CC-BY-ND 3.0 Programming La

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/29/2012 08:07 AM, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote: > I am thinking about a more general topic like: > Managing packaging on VCS services other than Alioth The other way rounds works well, too - package wherever you like to and mirror it on Alioth, for example in your personal git folder in your home. -

Re: Bug#675033: ITP: kgraphviewer -- KGraphViewer is a GraphViz dot graph viewer for KDE 4.

2012-05-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 02:54:40 PM w.goesgens wrote: ... > Already packaged for ubuntu by Scott Kitterman; compiles on debian wheezy. > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kgraphviewer/4:2.1.1-0ubuntu1 For the record, it is already packaged in Ubuntu, but not by me. I touched it there to do s

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-29 Thread Aneurin Price
On 26 May 2012 19:20, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > *Important*: use "df -h /tmp" NOT "du -hs /tmp", since the flash player > deletes the file entry from /tmp as soon as it gets the inode allocated. > I believe this a measure to "prevent" piracy (people ripping the video > from /tmp) I thin

Bug#675033: ITP: kgraphviewer -- KGraphViewer is a GraphViz dot graph viewer for KDE 4.

2012-05-29 Thread w.goesgens
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wilfried Goesgens * Package name: kgraphviewer Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Gaël de Chalendar * URL : http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kgraphviewer/ * License : (GPL2) Programming Lang: (C, C++, QT) Description

Bug#675032: ITP: iipmooviewer -- Ajax-based Internet Imaging Protocol (IIP) client

2012-05-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: iipmooviewer Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Ruven Pillay * URL : http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Ajax-based Internet

Bug#675018: ITP: python-pycalendar -- iCalendar/vCard Library

2012-05-29 Thread Rahul Amaram
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: python-pycalendar Version: 0.2~svn188 Upstream Author: Cyrus Daboo URL: http://svn.mulberrymail.com/repos/PyCalendar/ License: Apache 2.0 Description: iCalendar/vC

Processed: merge

2012-05-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > merge 601455 661496 Bug #601455 [general] can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when disabled via /etc/default/foo Bug #661496 [general] multiple, annoyingly different ways to disable an init script Merged 601455 661496 > thanks Stopping

Bug#480925: marked as done (support for playing blu-ray discs)

2012-05-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 29 May 2012 10:01:02 +0200 with message-id <201205291001.03726.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line closing, supported as much as we can has caused the Debian Bug report #480925, regarding support for playing blu-ray discs to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Processed: downgrading

2012-05-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 637232 important Bug #637232 [general] general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain Bug #639214 [general] eglibc: changes to paths concerning crt1.o, crti.o and crtn.o breaks building LLVM Trunk Bug #644986 [general] i3

Bug#669108: marked as done (general: assorted segfault)

2012-05-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#672147: marked as done (general: restart desktop when i press cdrom icon)

2012-05-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 29 May 2012 09:41:23 +0200 with message-id <201205290941.24260.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line crystal ball is broken has caused the Debian Bug report #672147, regarding general: restart desktop when i press cdrom icon to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Processed: debian-policy is the place to discuss this

2012-05-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 652011 debian-policy Bug #652011 [general] general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'debian-policy'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of b